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    UNDER THE HOOD

    May 30, 2019 4 minutes
    PAT SYMONDS

    PULLING ON THE (CARBON) THREADS

    To many people the words ‘carbon fibre’ describe a single material, but it is as generic a term as the word ‘metal’. In the same way metal covers a range of elements from aluminium to zinc, so too does carbon fibre describe a plethora of different combinations of fibre and resin, each with unique and exploitable properties.

    In general engineering carbon fibre is still thought of as a relatively new material, but the fibres as we know them today were first made by Swan for use in lightbulbs in 1860.

    In the mid twentieth century small samples of high-performance

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